Where Are The Feminists When You Need Them Most?
A shy, timid and thin young girl came in with the doorman to our doorstep. With a vocabulary of not more than 50 words of Bahasa Indonesia, we communicated to her about hours of work and pay. We were...
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Bringing Water Back To Bundelkhand
An old village pond in Hamirpur district still retains water because it was built keeping in mind the contours of the land. Wiser water-retention strategies and a revival of traditional land-use...
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Trump Is Presumptive GOP Nominee And It's Not 'A Beautiful Thing To Watch'...
Will the Republican party continue to despair, remain in denial or make peace with the fact that Donald Trump for all purposes is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee? His victory in...
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What Namma Metro Can Learn From Delhi's Shining Example
"Where do you want to go today?" Forget about poetic licence. Anywhere is truly possible with the Delhi Metro. I travel to Delhi almost every month. From HUDA station in Gurgaon on one end to...
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Memoirs From Mokhada: My Transformational Journey Into Rural India (Part 1)
A week-long immersion into rural Maharashtra with a grassroots NGO after a particularly difficult personal challenge proved to be a transformational journey for me. This three-part series showcases...
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In A Nutshell: Parliamentary Committee's Grim Diagnosis Of Govt's Public...
While some may find it shocking, there are times when India's parliamentarians do a good job. One such group of MPs has been in the limelight recently: the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health...
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Is Safe Drinking Tap Water A Pipe Dream?
A water purifier is invariably one of the first things we buy whenever we move into a new house. For those who don't have one, boiling water is a daily ritual. But why? In the West, tap water is safe...
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12 Insights A Mumbai Local Train Wishes It Could Give You
The first train in India, built by the British, ran between Bori Bunder (today's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) and Thane in April, 1853. The journey also marked the birth of the Mumbai Suburban Railway...
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PHOTOS: Heat, Dust And Water In Bundelkhand
The availability of water, or the lack of it, shapes lives in drought-stricken Bundelkhand. Bundelkhand is a dirt-poor region where people are now desperately scratching the dirt for water. Only a few...
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Our Engineering Entrance Exams Are Doing A Serious Disservice To Students
In April, 17-year-old Kriti Tiwari killed herself despite cracking the IIT-JEE. Reason: she did not want to study engineering. The hype around engineering refuses to disappear, and the weight of it is...
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Paying Our Debt To The Forgotten Overseas Indian
There is more to the term 'overseas Indian' than meets the eye. One can be an overseas Indian without being an Indian national, which is exactly how the citizens of the developed world (of Indian...
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INTERVIEW: Children Are De-Prioritized Because They Cannot Vote, Says CEO Of CRY
Founded in 1979, CRY (Child Rights and You) has been active as a pressure group to restore children's rights in the country. In an interview with Dipin Damodharan, its chief executive officer Puja...
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Brand Stories Are Co-Created, Not Just Told
Digital Branding Series #2: Leveraging consumer engagement to create and recreate brand stories; read #1 here. Storytelling is everywhere today. Not just fiction, even news is related through stories...
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There's A New Cure For Hepatitis C, But Where Are The Diagnoses?
Hepatitis C, a potentially life-threatening liver disease, affects an estimated 12 million people in India, most of whom do not know that they have been infected with the virus. Until the last year or...
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'Captain America: Civil War' Sets A New Benchmark For Superhero Movies
Captain America: Civil War is the third and the latest film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, the other two being Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter...
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Why The Indian Legal Industry Must Get Out Of Its Rut
Why have we not seen disruptive innovation in the Indian legal industry? We have witnessed big changes in how the financial, retail, health and transport industries are organized, information is...
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Linking Rivers Will Not Save Bundelkhand
Retaining rainwater through ponds, check dams and farm embankments will quench Bundelkhand's thirst far better than a grand river linking scheme based on dodgy assumptions on water availability. Read...
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There Is Reason For India's Corruption (And It's Not Us Or Even The Politicians)
India's political system is inherently corrupt and it's destroying our society's moral fibre. People don't live in a vacuum; the system in which they live shapes them. Sure, culture affects the system,...
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How India's Socialist Psyche Creates 'Villains' Like Mallya
Our collective reaction to Vijay Mallya and Kingfisher's debt default says a lot about us as a country, particularly the socialist legacy that remains rooted deep in our national psyche. Our...
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Kangana Vs. Hrithik In Cold Hard Numbers
As Kangana Ranaut receives yet another National Award, for yet another superlative performance, we took a look at her brand monitor and that of her alleged former lover and current bĂȘte noire Hrithik...
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